Sancho: Or, The ProverbialistT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816 - 178 páginas |
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... thought it my duty to illustrate these positions by re- cording some of the events of my life , and , with much humility , to present the Memoir to you . I am , & c . May , 1816 . THE AUTHOR . 1 CONTENTS . PAGE CHAP . I. - A Family Picture.
... thought it my duty to illustrate these positions by re- cording some of the events of my life , and , with much humility , to present the Memoir to you . I am , & c . May , 1816 . THE AUTHOR . 1 CONTENTS . PAGE CHAP . I. - A Family Picture.
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... thought it best to do - or , in other words , as she rarely acted but on the authority of a proverb , what she could find proverbial authority for doing . This being once discovered , I no more thought of 13.
... thought it best to do - or , in other words , as she rarely acted but on the authority of a proverb , what she could find proverbial authority for doing . This being once discovered , I no more thought of 13.
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... thought of resisting the will of my aunt , backed by a proverb , than a stone , when left to the influence of gravity , thinks of hesitating to descend . I spoke , thought , wept , laughed ; and moreover refrained from speech , thought ...
... thought of resisting the will of my aunt , backed by a proverb , than a stone , when left to the influence of gravity , thinks of hesitating to descend . I spoke , thought , wept , laughed ; and moreover refrained from speech , thought ...
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... thought I should be yielding much gratification to the thinking part of the community , by developing the secret springs of my own character . There is many a strange creature at large in society , of whose follies and infirmities it is ...
... thought I should be yielding much gratification to the thinking part of the community , by developing the secret springs of my own character . There is many a strange creature at large in society , of whose follies and infirmities it is ...
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... thought it , I sup- pose , impolitic to rouse any passions in my breast unfavourable to the lecture . Accord- ingly , with much sagacity , she left the currant jelly to soften the way for her lesson , and thus proceeded . " My dear ...
... thought it , I sup- pose , impolitic to rouse any passions in my breast unfavourable to the lecture . Accord- ingly , with much sagacity , she left the currant jelly to soften the way for her lesson , and thus proceeded . " My dear ...
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Página 159 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 103 - ... exclaim, • Give them bark ! give them bark ! and let not an European perish, whom it is possible for a Peruvian to save.' Thus far all would be well. But conceive, instead of the assembly being permitted to act upon this benevolent decision, some Peruvian, of an age in which the prevalence of policy or mere prudence over justice and benevolence is more intelligible and pardonable, to arise, and thus to address his countrymen: • " ' Peruvians, you are far too precipitate. Consider, I beseech...
Página 99 - A fool and his money are soon parted ;" " A penny saved is a penny got;" " Money makes the man;" and who could resist such accumulated authorities?
Página 107 - Obey the eleventh," said the archbishop, "and you certainly will. — A new " commandment I give unto you, — that ye love
Página 105 - I'eruvums, are my reasons for opposing the wish of the speaker; and whoever promotes it, or opposes me, is a madman, and an enemy both to the Incas and the Great Spirit.'
Página 102 - I then thought looked old enough to know better) arose, and thus addressed the assembly : " Instead, sir, of replying directly to the reasonings of the speaker who has preceded me, I will simply put another case, and request his decision upon it. Suppose, instead of the present assembly, a thousand Peruvians convened on the banks of the Amazon, to take into consideration a supplication from the nations of Europe to supply them with that bark of Peru, which...
Página 100 - Heathen, convened a meeting near my aunt's mansion-house, to consider the means of extending to about sixty millions of poor idolatrous Hindoos the knowledge of Christianity. Now, whatever Religion and sound Wisdom might urge upon so plain a point, mere Prudence could not but be alarmed at an attempt, however quiet, to disturb the creed of sixty millions of people. Accordingly, having entered the assembly, I rose, and to the admiration of my aunt, made the following oration. '" I rise, Sir, to oppose...